HIT ME isn't certainly a remembered movie. After all it has a score of 5,3 and as I am writing, only 10 reviews. Considering that I am a big expert on this sort of movies, it shouldn't come as a surprise that one day I would have stumbled across HIT ME. And it's a very divisive movie in a personal sense.
Sonny Rose (Elias Koteas) is a hotel bellhop that struggles to pay back a loan to the head of hotel security Jack Cougar and lives at home with his disabled brother Leroy. One night Sonny is ensnared by Monique, a woman from Paris that slits her wrists in front of him: despite Sonny is warned to not have sex with the hotel clients because the owner wants to regain the third star that it lost in the past they end in bed and when Monique begins screaming he slaps her and flees the room. Del, a former bellhop that now works for gangster Lenny Ish (Philip Baker Hall), will help Sonny in keeping the mess silent at one condition: help him in an heist at Ish's poker game at the hotel and have some part of the money. After a while Monique visits Sonny, tells him she is from Montreal and was hired to seduce him and scream so that he was then forced to participate in the heist. Sonny ends up in police station where he is interrogated by a night cop (William Macy) telling him that there weren't losses at the poker game because of the illegal nature of it, and he's released. After a struggle with Lenny Ish' right hand men Ish comes to Sonny's home for discussing that he planned to be robbed, and he wants the money in exchange for a controlling interest in the hotel. After this, Monique departs and Sonny is again alone with Leroy.
I had to explain the plot in the best way because it was so full of twists and turns that it's best if you see the movie for yourselves. The acting was ok: Koteas proves to be a competent lead and despite Macy is featured in the poster he appeared for only few minutes but he held is own greatly. What's an issue is that some of the characters' actions didn't made sense and the lead looked like a complete moron and Monique like she was in cahoots with Lenny Ish for then leaving Sonny alone.
Overall, a thriller that given the concept and stars could have been better but instead it's just an ok attempt to it. I'd recommend it only to fans of the stars or of obscure movies from the 1990s.
Sonny Rose (Elias Koteas) is a hotel bellhop that struggles to pay back a loan to the head of hotel security Jack Cougar and lives at home with his disabled brother Leroy. One night Sonny is ensnared by Monique, a woman from Paris that slits her wrists in front of him: despite Sonny is warned to not have sex with the hotel clients because the owner wants to regain the third star that it lost in the past they end in bed and when Monique begins screaming he slaps her and flees the room. Del, a former bellhop that now works for gangster Lenny Ish (Philip Baker Hall), will help Sonny in keeping the mess silent at one condition: help him in an heist at Ish's poker game at the hotel and have some part of the money. After a while Monique visits Sonny, tells him she is from Montreal and was hired to seduce him and scream so that he was then forced to participate in the heist. Sonny ends up in police station where he is interrogated by a night cop (William Macy) telling him that there weren't losses at the poker game because of the illegal nature of it, and he's released. After a struggle with Lenny Ish' right hand men Ish comes to Sonny's home for discussing that he planned to be robbed, and he wants the money in exchange for a controlling interest in the hotel. After this, Monique departs and Sonny is again alone with Leroy.
I had to explain the plot in the best way because it was so full of twists and turns that it's best if you see the movie for yourselves. The acting was ok: Koteas proves to be a competent lead and despite Macy is featured in the poster he appeared for only few minutes but he held is own greatly. What's an issue is that some of the characters' actions didn't made sense and the lead looked like a complete moron and Monique like she was in cahoots with Lenny Ish for then leaving Sonny alone.
Overall, a thriller that given the concept and stars could have been better but instead it's just an ok attempt to it. I'd recommend it only to fans of the stars or of obscure movies from the 1990s.